Gregory Deaton sits next to his court-appointed attorney Mark Weller during a sentencing and sexual offender classification hearing involving child rape charges in Auglaize County Common Pleas Court in Wapakoneta on Thursday. The former Montezuma man received a total of 21 years in prison this week for crimes committed against a young girl in both Mercer and Auglaize counties.

A former Montezuma man was sentenced this week in Mercer and Auglaize county courts to a total of 21 years in prison for raping and sexually abusing a young girl.
Gregory L. Deaton Jr., 26, of Camden, appeared in Mercer County . . .